The Second World Wars
How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
2017 • 652 pages
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How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
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A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya. The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, bestselling author Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory. An authoritative new history of astonishing breadth, The Second World Wars offers a stunning reinterpretation of history's deadliest conflict.
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VDH gives us a very interesting look at World War 2 from multiple viewpoints.
His historian's take is well worth the time for those interested in the most destructive and murderous war in human history. A war in which no quarter was asked and non given. This book brought home to me that Big 2 was the only major war in which the victors lost more people, many many more, than the losers.
The audio narration was just adequate. (I think Tantor Audio may have skimped a bit on the production.)
Solid 4 stars.
